Uses of Free Time by Young Adults in Arab Mediterranean Countries: Exposing and Addressing Boundary Issues in Leisure Studies

Roberts, Ken; Kovacheva, Siyka; Kabaivanov, Stanimir

doi:10.6000/2371-1655.2018.04.02

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“…It requires leisure to be distinguishable from the rest of life in terms of either/or time, activities and experiences (Roberts, 2006). Such a concept simply does not fit rural lives in the rest of the world or those of the self-employed and informally employed urban poor (Kwong, 2011;Lee & Lin, 2011;Roberts et al, 2018). Over 20 years ago, Chick (1998) found that the word "leisure" could not be translated into most of the world's known languages.…”

Section: Into a Wilderness: The Globalization Of Leisure Studiesmentioning

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Still speaking to ourselves: leisure studies in a wilderness of multiple modernities

Roberts

2021

World Leisure Journal

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During the last 30 years, leisure scholars have tended to split into specialists on sport, tourism, and other "little leisures". Meanwhile, the voices of scholars who continue to write about "big leisure" rarely travel beyond their own networks. This paper explains how leisure research and theory commanded wider audiences during the early and mid-twentieth century. This was in binary international political contexts in which democracies and fascist countries, then after 1945 capitalism and communism, each claimed to be offering a superior way of life. Since the "revolutions from below" in 1989, a binary has been absent. The capitalist market economy has spread globally, with no serious competitor. However, traditional national and religious cultures have not weakened. Also, the present-day world contains a mix of liberal democracies, managed democracies, and autocratic dynasties. We have entered an era of multiple modernities. Up to now, none have needed the theories and evidence of leisure scholars to legitimize the regimes. However, this paper identifies an emergent binary, created by economic competition between super-powers in South and East Asia and the West, which offer contrasting conceptions of a good life. It is argued that engagement with these differences is a route to renewed political relevance for global leisure studies in the 2020s and beyond.

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Still speaking to ourselves: leisure studies in a wilderness of multiple modernities

Roberts

2021

World Leisure Journal

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Neither secular nor sectarian: perspectives on social life and politics among Beirut's religiously devout youth

Renne

2024

Politics and Religion

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This paper explores the following question: How does individual religiosity and attachment to a religious community relate to sectarian political loyalties or interpersonal prejudices in a post-conflict, institutionally sectarianized society? The paper explores this question through dialectic, participatory methods with youth involved in community-based youth associations with a religious component. The paper investigates how religiously devout youth in Lebanon conceptualize the personal and communal elements of their religiosity in relation to sectarian politics. In this way, the paper contributes to a study of social sectarianism, in which scholars are striving to understand what individuals mean when they speak about sect, and how discussions surrounding sect mask more complex underlying social realities. Overall, these accounts suggest that personal and social religiosity both positively influence anti-sectarian political outlook among participants, while other factors, such as the institutional sectarianization of public life and a history of violent conflict maintain participants' default attachment to co-sectarian networks in terms of routine, economic security, and communal belonging.

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Transformation or reproduction? Trends with age in gender and class divisions in young single adults’ uses of free time in south and east Mediterranean countries since “the events of 2011”

Roberts

Kovacheva

Kabaivanov

2019

World Leisure Journal

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Uses of Free Time by Young Adults in Arab Mediterranean Countries: Exposing and Addressing Boundary Issues in Leisure Studies

Cited by 4 publications

References 14 publications

Still speaking to ourselves: leisure studies in a wilderness of multiple modernities

Still speaking to ourselves: leisure studies in a wilderness of multiple modernities

Neither secular nor sectarian: perspectives on social life and politics among Beirut's religiously devout youth

Transformation or reproduction? Trends with age in gender and class divisions in young single adults’ uses of free time in south and east Mediterranean countries since “the events of 2011”

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